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#2485 - Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - Editor: Gloria Lee
Note: We are still playing catch up, so will blame the holiday. While Jerry is away this week, I found some quotes on life's travels. You'll see they are both pro and con, and as usual, that is our official stance: both and neither. -Gloria A
ny life, no
matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single
moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for
all, who he is.
--Jorge Luis Borges
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The sun
shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know
why this
is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we were
not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once
could
do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness
of never
understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death.”
--Pablo Neruda
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Wandering
reestablishes the original harmony which once existed between man
and
the universe. --Anatole France
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photo by Sam Pasiencier, who just returned from Paris.
Travel does
what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it
like a
picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic
qualities are made
more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday
life is made of,
giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. --Freya Stark
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by John Steinberg http://bandonbythesea.com/jason1/pages/10-14d.htm
Why do you
wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you
always
take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is
ever at your heels.
--Socrates -
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It’s our
knowledge of death that makes us pray. Every path a child takes
looks
precarious to the parent’s eye. And it is, and precarious is
an old word that means
'full of prayers.'
--Michael Meade
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A certain
businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in
Mark
Twain's presence. "Before I die," he declared, "I
mean to make a pilgrimage to the
Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments
aloud at the
top." "I have a better idea," Twain replied.
"You could stay home in Boston and keep
them." --Bartlett’s
Book of Anecdotes
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We live at a
time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation,
but he
does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord
of himself. He feels
lost amid his own abundance. With more means at its disposal,
more knowledge,
more techniques than ever, it turns out that the world today goes
the same way as
the worst of worlds that have been: it simply drifts.
--José Ortega y Gasset
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For no reason I can explain, I began to discover how little
it mattered where you
are or what anyone does to you. I was sure that what I had done
to get there
[imprisoned for draft resistance] was right, and somehow the
longer I was there,
the better I felt. . . . I felt filled with love for everyone:
everyone I knew and
everyone I didn’t know; for plants, fish, animals; even
bankers, generals, prison
guards, and lying politicians — everything and everyone. Why
did I feel so good?
Was it God? Or approaching death? Or just the way life is
supposed to be if we
weren’t so busy trying to make it something else? --David
Dellinger